30 > GOLF Day practices at Masters with mother ‘in good hands’ Augusta. Australia’s Jason Day com- pleted a long weekend of practice at Augusta National on Sunday, hopeful his mother’s condition in her cancer fight will allow him to play in the Masters. The world number three toured the famed layout for the third consecutive day ahead of today’s first official practice session for what he hopes will be his seventh Masters start come Thursday. Day withdrew during the first round of the World Golf Championships Match Play event two weeks ago in Austin, Texas, and put his golf on hold to be with his mother, Dening, after her lung cancer surgery on March 24. She was treated at Ohio State University’s cancer hospital and is resting in Columbus, Ohio, where Day and his family live. (AFP) sport Westbrook eyes history, LeBron leads Cleveland in OT thriller THE CITIZEN Tuesday, 4 April 2017 > RUGBY Saracens skipper excited by Dublin date with Munster London. Saracens captain Brad Barritt insisted his title-holders would be undaunted by the prospect of a European Champions Cup semi-final away to Irish province Munster. The London club, who are also the reigning English champions, booked their place in the last four with a convincing 38-13 quarter-final win at home to Glasgow on Sunday. In front of 15,000 supporters at their Allianz Park ground, Saracens scored four tries, with former England wing Chris Ashton crossing twice. Barritt and fellow centre Marcelo Bosch grabbed Saracens’ other two tries against a Glasgow side making their first appearance in the knockout phase. Saracens, by contrast, are now through to a fifth successive semi-final. (AFP) LeBron James of Cleveland Cavaliers handles the ball during the game against the Indiana Pacers on Sunday at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. PHOTO | AFP Los Angeles. Russell Westbrook edged closer to NBA immortality with his 40th triple-double of the season on Sunday as LeBron James dug deep to help Cleveland clinch a double-overtime thriller against Indiana. Westbrook scored 40 points, grabbed 13 rebounds and provided 10 assists as the Oklahoma City Thunder fell to a 113-101 home loss against the Charlotte Hornets. The Thunder guard is now one triple-double away from tying Hall of Famer Oscar Robertson’s single-season record of 41, set in 1961-62 for the Cincinnati Royals. With six games left in the regular sea- son, Westbrook can match the record when the Thunder host the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday. Westbrook however was more focused on the Thunder’s defeat than the latest chapter in his remarkable season. Asked for his thoughts about the pos- sibility of tying Robertson’s long-standing mark on Tuesday, Westbrook replied: “We gotta win. That’s my thoughts.” “We were just making bad mistakes, bad decisions,” Westbrook said after a game “ We gotta win. That’s my thoughts. We were just making bad mistakes, bad decisions,” RUSSELL WESTBROOK, THUNDER GUARD that saw the Thunder hand over 24 turnovers. “Starting with myself, we have to take better care of the ball.” Oklahoma City now lie in sixth place in the Western Conference standings at 43-33. In Cleveland, the Cavaliers looked to 2016 NBA Finals MVP James once again to secure a pulsating 135-130 win over the Pacers in double-overtime. James finished with 41 points, 16 rebounds and 11 assists for his 11th tripledouble of the season and the 53rd of his career in a crucial win for the Cavaliers. Pacers star Paul George led the scoring with 43 points including 19 in the two periods of overtime, adding nine rebounds and nine assists. - Shouting match - But James lost his cool in an on-court shouting match with team-mate Tristan Thompson, the two trading barbs over a blown coverage. “I had good intentions but I was a little bit too demonstrative at that point in the game,” James said. “I can’t show up my teammates, that’s for sure, especially Double T (Thompson) worked hard for our team, he’s a big-time player for our team so I had good intentions of what I wanted to happen, but the way it came out was ... it didn’t look good on TV.”(AFP) Bike celebration was special, says Belgian rider Oudenaarde. Philippe Gilbert said he wanted to do something special to celebrate his Tour of Flanders victory as he walked across the finish line holding his bike above his head. The 34-year-old Belgian champion had come to the end of a daring 55km-long solo breakaway to win the prestigious 261km ‘Monument’ one-day cobbled classic race. Looking back over his shoulder he could see a group of three chasers a few hundred metres behind. With victory assured, he stopped just before the line, climbed off his bicycle, hoisted it high in the air and walked across the line with a beaming smile. “Until two kilometres to go I wasn’t really sure I could resist the guys behind because they were coming a little back,” said the Quick Step Floors rider. “I was really focusing on my effort until almost the last kilometre. Then in the long straight I could see the finish line at the end. “I was looking back and I saw I still had a gap so I thought: ‘I will do something special’. “I thought this will be a nice picture with the bike in the air and the jersey stretched -- something special.” Gilbert had broken clear on the Oude-Kwaremont climb with around 55km to ride and initially he admitted he wasn’t sure what to do as his team hadn’t planned for him to pull clear so far from home. First, Gilbert’s Quick Step team-mate Tom Boonen accelerated and then when he put in a dig, he quickly found himself with daylight behind his rear wheel. - ‘Fast not crazy’ - “Tom went full gas and really did a big pull. He did the first part and then I was taking over, shifting to a big gear when it was flatter. “Then there was a little chicane in the village, I was looking back and saw I had a gap. (AFP) Belgian cyclist Philippe Gilbert of Quick-Step Floors gets off his bike to cross the finish line and win the 101st edition of the Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres - Tour of Flanders one day cycling race on Sunday. PHOTO | AFP